CV | Ricky Reyes

Raised in Tacoma, Washington

Lives & works in Seattle, Washington

University of Chicago | 2024 - 2025 (M.A. in Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History)

Seattle University | 2014 - 2018 (B.A. in Public Administration & Philosophy)

Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute/Wa Na Wari | 2021 - 2023 (Oral History)

Tacoma School of the Arts | 2011 - 2014

2024 - Media Burn Independent Video Archive | Video Editor, Archival, and Social Media Graduate Intern
2024 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | Content Strategy, Rights & Images Graduate Intern
2023 - The City of Tacoma Division of Community & Economic Development (Office of Arts & Cultural Vitality) | Public Art Project Manager
2021 - The City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture | Public Art Project Manager
2021 - Wa Na Wari, Black Spatial Histories Institute | Oral Historian
2020 - Office of Arts & Culture | ARTS at King Street Station Gallery Lead
2018 - Office of Arts & Culture | Racial Equity & Arts Commission Coordinator
2017 - Office of Arts & Culture | Research and Communications Contractor
2016 - Sub Pop | Licensing & Marketing
2016 - Museum of Pop Culture | Education Programs & Community Outreach
2015 - Napster | Social Media Marketing Intern
2015 - Seattle Theatre Group | Programming & Booking Intern

Arts, Displacement, and Intentional Communities (2019)

Bystander Intervention, Cair WA (2018)

Build Arts Space Equitably Cohort Coordinator (2019)

Cross-Movement Organizing: Strategies to Resist and Dismantle Oppression (2018)

Storytelling for Collective Liberation (2019)

Internalized Racial Inferiority, Office of Civil Rights (2019)

POC Leadership Training, RARE Coaching & Consulting (2018)

Storytelling Strategies for Dismantling Racism, NONWHITEWORKS (2019)

Understanding Power, Office of Civil Rights (2019)

Undoing Institutional Racism, The People’s Institute (2019)

Art Administration
Oral History
Public Art Project Management
Racial Equity Framework
Facilitation
Public Speaking
Event Planning & Coordination
Social Media Marketing
Music & Creative Sound Design: Production, Songwriting, Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Beat Making

Creative Strategies for Career-Connected Learning: Youth Voice in the Media Classroom. (Reyes, Nguyen-Akbar, 2018)

New Orleans Charter Education:
Combating Charter-Based School Segregation. (Reyes, 2018)

(2023 - 2025) Restorative Justice in Seattle Public Schools, WA-BLOC
(2023) Black Waterfront Histories, Friends of the Waterfront Seattle
(2023) McKinney Center for Community and Economic Development Oral Histories, Central District Community Preservation & Development Authority
(2022) A More Perfect Union Oral Histories, Humanities Washington
(2021-2023) Seattle Waterfront Oral Histories (Union Organizing, Black/Indigenous Contributions to Seattle's Waterfront)